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Discussion on: Advanced devs and beginner devs can co-exist harmoniously. It's not rocket science.

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Michael "notriddle" Howell • Edited

The annoying part is that you're half-right. SO is not, and should not, be the same kind of place as dev.to.

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But writing in a kind style doesn't mean making things longer and more padded out. It means not calling things obvious when they actually aren't, and not jumping on the worst possible interpretation of the other poster. Half the time, the polite way uses less words.

Stack Overflow is necessarily less inviting than "a dating site", and I think a lot of its critics either don't get that or don't care about it, but don't act like it's reached its peak already. That place has a lot of outright unnecessary rudeness, and, women are raised in a way that makes them strongly abhore rudeness.